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Climate and Capitalism |
6 days 22 hours ago
Since we can’t stop poor people from breeding, let’s build fences to keep them out. And let’s ask the world’s biggest polluters to pay for the fences.
Regular readers of Climate & Capitalism know that David Attenborough, in addition to making nature films, is a patron of...
Tags: Deforestation, Abholzung, Rural development, CoFCCLoT
RECOFTC |
1 week 6 days ago
At Durban’s Forest Day 5, the resounding message was that REDD+ will not work if people are hungry. How can we expect the poor to conserve forest resources if their food security – their very survival – rests on the use or consumption of those resources?
2 weeks 2 days ago
Christian Schmelz and Bernd Rajal
Mondaq Business Briefing
January 18, 2012
Reproduced with permission from Law Business Research Ltd. This article was first published in Getting the Deal Through - Environment 2012, (published in December, 2012; contributing editor: Carlos de Miguel Perales, Ur...
Tags: Rural development
Engineering News |
2 weeks 2 days ago
Smallholders, with less than 50 ha in Malaysia, are earning a steady income from the production of palm oil, which is linked to the large-scale corporate industry manufacturing oils, cosmetics components, biofuels, natural fertilisers and soaps, says Malaysian Minister of plantation industries and...
AllAfrica |
2 weeks 4 days ago
Kabale — In the early 1990s Kabale was nicknamed "The Switzerland of Africa" by white settlers because of its cool weather. But with environment degradation and accompanying high temperatures, the name rings hollow.
The district meteorology officer, Mr Bernard Kanyesigye, says about...
Tags: Deforestation, Uganda, Abholzung, Rural development
ClimateFocus |
2 weeks 5 days ago
Agriculture is the main driver of deforestation in many countries and therefore is intrinsically connected to REDD+. Public-private partnerships in and around supply chains can generate emission reductions from REDD+ while also helping developing countries improve the sustainability of their...
Tags: REDD+, Rural development
Demara Waves |
2 weeks 5 days ago
Government on Thursday announced that it has terminated the US$15.4M contract held by Fip Motilall for the construction of the Amaila Falls access road and transmission line clearing project.
Works minister Robeson Benn made the announcement at a news briefing saying the action was due to the...
Tags: Guyana, REDD+, Rural development
VibeGhana |
6 weeks 2 days ago
Mr Mike Hammah, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, on Tuesday expressed concern about the rate at which the country’s forest was depleting and said Government needed to update laws on forest and natural resources.
He noted that at the beginning on the 20th century, Ghana’s forest...
New Scientist |
6 weeks 5 days ago
This year's British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey comes complete with gloomy headlines on public opinion about climate change.
ForestCarbon Asia |
6 weeks 5 days ago
Giving REDD+ Heart: Integrating REDD+ with Broader Development Goals through Cross-sectoral Dialogue is a Key to Bringing it to Life
This report draws on The Forests Dialogue’s REDD+ readiness dialogue series, which took place in six countries — Brazil, Ghana, Guatemala, Ecuador,...
Physorg |
6 weeks 5 days ago
Judge Carlos Castro said the company behind the Belo Monte dam had shown that local fishing will not be impeded during construction, and the natural flow of the Xingu river will not be affected.
"There are no legal grounds to justify maintaining the stoppage measure," Castro said.
In...
WWF-Panda |
7 weeks 1 day ago
“The outcome on REDD safeguards is a step backwards from what was agreed in Cancun last year, which itself was far short of what could have been agreed in Copenhagen. The provisions for safeguards in forest conservation are being shredded”, says Raja Jarrah, CARE’s Senior Advisor...
CIFOR |
7 weeks 5 days ago
Agriculture will most likely be included in future negotiations on global warming, experts said at the U.N. climate change talks in Durban, which may help address one of the top drivers of deforestation amid a spike in demand for farmland.
South Africa Info |
7 weeks 5 days ago
A 10-year, $233-million plan to help a billion people around the world whose livelihoods depend on trees and forests, was announced on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 17) in Durban on Sunday.
The ambitious global research programme aims to protect forest carbon stocks and...
IPS News |
7 weeks 5 days ago
RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec 13, 2011 (IPS) - Brazil aims to meet its climate change targets in agriculture by stimulating techniques that have been proven to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – but which may increase the use of toxic agrochemicals, activists say.
Direct seeding, restoration of...
Tags: Brasilien, Brazil, Deforestation, Abholzung, Rural development
Forest Carbon Asia |
7 weeks 5 days ago
Research related to tropical rainforests involves field-based data collection. Much of this information gathering takes place in territories occupied by indigenous and other forest-based communities. Members of these communities are often used as sources of information for a wide range of topics,...
LAPress |
8 weeks 6 days ago
Peruvian indigenous organizations along with the Forest Peoples Program, an international non-profit that defends the rights of native forest-dwelling peoples, said in a recent report that carbon emission reduction programs tied to the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation,...
Farming UK |
9 weeks 6 days ago
Valuable funding for rural business has recently become available and it appears not many people are aware of it yet.
The Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) has developed the Farming and Forestry Improvement Scheme (FFIS) as a scheme to support and develop the use of resources...
Tags: Großbritanien, UK, Rural development
BioFuel Digest |
10 weeks 9 hours ago
The secret that “food vs fuel” proponents don’t want you to think about?
Not all food is created equal. Dirty food, made using dirty process, makes a dirty world. And then there’s clean food.
Here’s some food for thought.
Die Presse |
11 weeks 4 days ago
Im westafrikanischen Land Sierra Leone haben Bauern ihre Äcker an einen Konzern zur Ethanolerzeugung verpachtet. Nun droht ihnen Nahrungsknappheit. NGOs sprechen von Landraub.
Makeni. Wo sich einst bunte Felder über die sanften Hügel der Savanne zogen, befindet sich heute eine...
Tags: Sierra Leone, Rural development